How to Use primate in a Sentence

primate

noun
Definition of primatenext
  • Many fans took to the comments section to mourn the loss of the primate.
    — Maria Pasquini, PEOPLE.com, 10 June 2021
  • The primate died on Wednesday at the age of 36 due to a cardiac event.
    — Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Kong unfreezes himself, and proves once again to be the fiercest primate around.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 28 Mar. 2024
  • This is the 2001 habitat of the white fronted brown lemur, a primate that eats fruit and flowers.
    — Lauren Leatherby, New York Times, 9 Dec. 2022
  • But the first primate-to-human heart transplant took place in 1964.
    — Brandy Schillace, Wired, 27 Jan. 2022
  • The branch of the tree which led to bears, dogs, and seals emerged tens of millions of years ago; primates branched off the tree many millions of years after that.
    — Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 17 July 2023
  • High up in the trees, these primates face threats from birds of prey, like the formidable harpy eagle, and snakes.
    — Anna Nordseth, Discover Magazine, 15 Aug. 2023
  • The first tooth and the small bone could have come from such a primate, but too little had yet been uncovered for the researchers to be sure.
    — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 June 2024
  • After the footwear landed in the primates' enclosure, Dong Dong approached the shoe and picked it up.
    — Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 22 May 2024
  • That is, until a fateful balloon pop set the primate off on a rampage.
    — Vulture, 24 July 2022
  • The findings could lead to new insights into the evolution of self-care and medicine in primates.
    — Bill Chappell, NPR, 3 May 2024
  • The zoo said the primate, born to parents Hendricks and Hemsworth, is the second blue-eyed black lemur born at the facility.
    — Zoe Sottile, CNN, 2 Apr. 2022
  • Enter the langur – or at least, cardboard cutouts of langurs – and men trained to sound like the bigger primates.
    — Rhea Mogul, CNN, 1 Sep. 2023
  • The baby primate was born to mother Charlie at the zoo on Nov. 17, according to the release.
    — Marcy De Luna, Chron, 17 Dec. 2020
  • Now, a new group of primates have flourished in a jungle-like world where nature has taken over.
    — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 12 Jan. 2024
  • As the clip transitions, the primate is then seen sitting with a smaller orangutan.
    — Nicholas Rice, PEOPLE.com, 4 Aug. 2021
  • The indri is a lemur, a primate with opposable thumbs; a short tail; and round, tufted, teddy-bear-like ears.
    — Sara Harrison, Wired, 21 Dec. 2021
  • The irony of the lemur’s name was not lost on staff, all of whom were glad to see that the petite primate had survived, spotted in his tree after Irma cleared.
    — Joe Mario Pedersen, orlandosentinel.com, 8 Mar. 2021
  • The newborn primate is the third viable offspring for his 44-year-old dad Lash and the second for 24-year-old Madini.
    — Nicholas Rice, PEOPLE.com, 14 Apr. 2021
  • The first apes evolved about 20 million years ago and are bigger than other early primates.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 6 Sep. 2023
  • The primates will even climb to higher ground to scope out their surroundings and avoid other groups, since fights would be costly.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Vivo is not a monkey, but a kinkajou, which is not a primate but in the same family as raccoons.
    — Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2021
  • And proof of the achievement, perhaps unnervingly, showed up in the infant primate’s eerie green glow.
    — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 10 Nov. 2023
  • Their study didn’t examine what the primates were saying.
    — Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 14 May 2024
  • These are the primates that would later grow in size and sophistication, spreading all over the globe.
    — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 21 Nov. 2023
  • The lemurs, whose names have not been announced, aren’t the only new primates at the zoo: On Wednesday, the zoo announced the birth of twin emperor tamarin monkeys on March 29.
    — Isabella Volmert, Dallas News, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Sinclair expects to release results of his study which tests this concept in primates in a few months.
    — Sonya Collins, Fortune Well, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Rodrigues doesn’t know if those primates have a true sense of humor about the situation.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 14 Feb. 2024
  • While the livestream is still available to the chimpanzees, the zoo will also host the video on its website from 8AM to 4PM local time, so any curious primate can tune in.
    — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Mar. 2021
  • Elephants Elephants are widely considered some of the most intelligent mammals outside of primates thanks to their exceptionally large brains and strong social bonds.
    — Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 4 July 2024

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